“If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.”

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”

“Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. Chinese

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”