Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how
valuable we are.

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how
valuable we are.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Success is never certain. Failure is never final.

Success is never certain. Failure is never final.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And read more

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world.
Someone to love, something to read more

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world.
Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as read more

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.