"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."

"We become what we think about all day long."

"Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."

"I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement."

"Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing."

"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."