Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

If you insist on having things reserved and purchased from the U.S. beforehand, rather than arranging to purchase them locally, that can have a profound effect on costs.

For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butterfly we bear within ourselves. And then time passes and the nymph stage never comes, we remain larvae -- what do we do with such an appalling realization?

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.