You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.