I make myself rich by making my wants few.
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
The Question Is Not What You Look At, But What You See.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Renew thyself completely each day.
Wildness is the preservation of the world.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Thank god men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
We are constantly invited to be who we are.
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
This world is but a canvas for our imagination.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it.
Things do not change; we change.