What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

For when we are interested in the beauty of a thing, the oftener we can see it the better; but when we are interested only by the story of a thing, we get tire…

Ask a great money-maker what he wants to do with his money, - he never knows. He doesn't make it to do anything with it. He gets it only that he may get it. 'W…

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right.

Beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.[2]

...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that th…