You don't milk a cow with your hands in your pockets.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.