IF I say, “Go and do what your masters tell you,” you might say you always do, and then I should have to remember that that is just the way to get stupid. You have got to understand what your master tells you to do, in order to do it your own way. If you do not do it your own way, you must be doing it like someone else, and then it is little better than making things by machinery.

You have got to find out, each one, what is the best way to do things with the particular qualities you have got, and order things accordingly. Every man’s order must be his own order in the end, and there are three simple things to keep in mind: first, that what he does is worth doing; secondly, that when he is doing it he does it with all his might, and does not let vagrant impulses distract him and have one thing getting in the way of another; and thirdly, that it is of use to some one else besides himself.