If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
The sun is but a morning star.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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