It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.from "Self-Reliance"

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression