Performance

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks

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

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell

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

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately

Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie

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

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise