Let every man ask himself with which of his faculties he can and will somehow influence his age.
Let no one think that people have waited for him as for the Saviour.
Character in matters great and small consists in a man steadily pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
The man who wants to be active and has to be so, need only think of what is fitting at the moment, and he will make his way without difficulty. This is where women have the advantage, if they understand it.
The moment is a kind of public; a man must deceive it into believing that he is doing something; then it leaves us alone to go our way in secret; whereat its grandchildren cannot fail to be astonished.