I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Things do not change; we change.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
The true harvest of my life is intangible – a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.