Classic words to reflect on

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second;

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,

Simplify, simplify.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Things do not change; we change.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Lost time is never found again;

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee;

A small leak will sink a great ship,

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands:

he that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows,

Diligence is the mother of good luck,