The only wealth is life.
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life… I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life… to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
