Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

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.

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.

Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

...humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.