No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Time itself comes in drops.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.