Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.