To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Marriage must continually vanquish the monster that devours everything, the monster of habit.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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