early crocus

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
  ~ Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior

From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life.
  ~ Arthur Ashe

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man
whose expenditure of speech
is too great for his income of ideas.
  ~ Christopher Morley