If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

He was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction travel sermons biography and history. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. It was possibly an influence on the novel The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne.

Edward Everett Hale (April 3 1822 – June 10 1909) was an American author historian and Unitarian clergyman.