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

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.