“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me”