Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe
If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.
. . . an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.
My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then. . . I never forgot the generosity of New York.