Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim

You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low eve…

Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that whic…

These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to th…

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'

It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then 'put it into practice,' but, rather, through the fact of your existence i…