I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.