Duty

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work

When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest

All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done

We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain

A child's a plaything for an hour

The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.