“The never-ending task of self improvement.”

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”

“A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.”

“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.”

“That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.”