Be not merely good. Be good for something.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.