Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant
trees. If you plan for read more

If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant
trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, read more

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you read more

Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows read more

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.