Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.