Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Things do not change; we change.

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

Simplify, simplify.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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

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

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.