Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Be yourself not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
