In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Men have become the tools of their tools

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

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. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.