Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.