“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

If you want to be happy, be!

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I love to be 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.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.