What is to give light must endure the burning.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I think and that is all that I am.

I think and that is all that I am.

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of read more

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without
pain.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible read more

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.

People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.