The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Doing common things uncommonly well.