It's a town you come to for a short time.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

When we waste our time, our time wastes us.

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.