Take anything and everything seriously except yourselves.
People who fail to regard the truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in matters that are great.
Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.