You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.