I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

I will not live without love.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.