Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.