Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. … You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t’were his own.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do … within the limits of his comprehension.
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.