"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party"
"Its healthy to be sick sometimes"
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life"
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance"
"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle"
"To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain"
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts"
"Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent"
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination"
"There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages"
"There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone"
"There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor"
"There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold"
"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance"
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"
"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"
"The universe is wider than our views of it"
"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"
"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"
"I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid"
"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks"
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads"
"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars"
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails"
"God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us"
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something"
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference"
"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting"
"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town"
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone"
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars"
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor"
"I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men"
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while"
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough"
"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark"
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude"
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude"
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend"
"Be not simply good - be good for something"
"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"
"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society"
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man"
"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning"
"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"
"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution"
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives"
