Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

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.

Rest is for the dead.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.