“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

“Renew thyself completely each day.”

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“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.”