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.

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.

Ray snorted. "Yeah, the air right around where the boat was parked is absolutely full of shit. Like the devil blew his nose all over it.""That's a pretty picture, Ray.

True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight.

Christmas is not only where you find it

The hardest work is to go idle.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.

My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.