Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?

The surest poison is time.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;-and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not be absent from the chamber which thou sittest.

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.

A day is a miniature eternity.