"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicatedTo closeness and the bettering of my mind.”

“I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

“If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.”

“The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow,you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.”

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”

“Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.”

“He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.”

“The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.”

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”