"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

"The only excuse for a man's doing anything that he doesn't like is that he has to do it."

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there…"

"He who would make his fellow-creatures happy must cease to be happy himself."