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

“Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately”

“Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration”

“Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie”

“It is better to plan less and do more”

“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good”