You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.