“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
“Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.”
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
“Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”
“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”