You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.