What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

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.

You may need to change your dreams.

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

The world is a stage where we come to play and go.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

The Christian life is anything but boring.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.