Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.