“Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.”
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
“Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
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