“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”

“We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.”

“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”

“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”

“When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefits.”

“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

“It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.”

“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.”