 Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. |
| Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
| A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. |
| The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. |
| Work alone is noble. |
| The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. |
| There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. |
| No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. |
| A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. Topics: Life |
| When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. |
| A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. |
| No violent extreme endures. |
| Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. |
