The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.