We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
I unsettle all things.
[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.