“Can our morrows be foretold?Your Grace might ask instead should our morrows be foretold? And to that I should answer no. Some doors are best left closed.See that you close mine as you leave.”
“Would you be happy! hearken, then, the way:Heed not to-morrow, heed not yesterday;The magic words of life are here and now -O fools, that after some to-morrow stray!”
“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
“You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...”
“The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.”
“Some doors are best left closed.”