I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

Sadly, it has often been said that my rear is better than my front, so thank you very much indeed.

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)