Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.