I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.