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 most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

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.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action