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Forever is composed of Nows.

Emily DickinsonForever is composed of Nows (c. 1863)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.

Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers (c. 1861)

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Christina RossettiTime Flies: A Reading Diary (1885)

For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather.

Christina RossettiGoblin Market (1859)

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina RossettiRemember (1849)

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

William BlakeThe Tyger, from Songs of Experience (1794)

Energy is Eternal Delight.

William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.

William BlakeAuguries of Innocence (c. 1803)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter.

John KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John KeatsLetter to George and Georgiana Keats (1819)

The child is father of the man.

William WordsworthMy Heart Leaps Up (1802)

Come forth, and bring with you a heart / That watches and receives.

William WordsworthThe Tables Turned (1798)

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William WordsworthLetter to an aspiring poet (attributed)

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane AustenPride and Prejudice (1813)

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane AustenMansfield Park (1814)

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard's Almanack (1746)

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard's Almanack (1735)

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin FranklinThe Way to Wealth (Poor Richard's Almanack)

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William ShakespeareAs You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7)

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