“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”