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

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”

“If you want to be happy, be!”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“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.”

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