Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

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.