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.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Not till we are completely lost or turned around... Do we begin to find ourselves.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone..
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.