A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

I start where the last man left off.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.