Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your cl...
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelti...
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is...
I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervou...
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.