Travel is a fools paradise.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.
Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
