To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
