Treat Your Men As You Would Your Own Beloved Sons

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men —above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Man is something that shall be overcome.