We falsely attribute to men a determined character, putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support, it is worse than a large family, he is the silent poor indeed.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.
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