You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Who loses a day loses life.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.