People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Who sows virtue reaps honour.
