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.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

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

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.