Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.