By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste is like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, then to die daily in the sick-room.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has bea…

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, How I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun.