“Life in us is like the water in a river.”

“If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”

“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”

“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”

“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”

“In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”

“If you want to be happy, be!”

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”

“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”

“As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.”

“Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ”

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”

“The only remedy for love is to love more.”

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.”

“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”

“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”

“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”

“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.”

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”

“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“Read not the Times, read the Eternities.”

“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.”

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.”

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”

“No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.”

“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”

“There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.”

“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”