Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.
The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
I'll start with small things.
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.