“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

“...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”

“It is never too late to give up your prejudices”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“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.”

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“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.”

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

“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.”

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”