"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"
"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil"
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things"
"In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed"
"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society"
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"
"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else"
"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being"
"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living"
"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once"
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest"
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals"
"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new"
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us"
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
"What is once well done is done forever"
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party"
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health"
"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"
"That government is best which governs least"
"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free"
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings"
"Its healthy to be sick sometimes"
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"
"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"
