If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator read more

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that read more

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater
pleasures.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is
drudgery. A vision with a read more

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is
drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially
constructed by the time childhood is over, but read more

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially
constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence
developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will
stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.