"Time has been lost and opportunity thrown..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”

“I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.”

“Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.”

“When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.”

“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”

“Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.”

“If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.”

“Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

“Out of adversity comes opportunity.”