Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

There are hundred reasons to worry but the only way to keep out of this 'net' of worry is to pray.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.