When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

The borrower runs in his own debt.