A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathem...
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to b...
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
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 thumbnail.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and t...
I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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