Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
If you want to be happy, be !
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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.