That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but hire him who does it for love of it.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Y’look like someone told you they’d stopped making lube.
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.