Today’s today. Tomorrow, we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.