Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal – that is your success.
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.
Wealth can’t buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
I have no time to be in a hurry.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.