"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."

"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

"May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!"

"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."

"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another."

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

"It is life near the bone where it is sweetest."