“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

Life in us is like the water in a river.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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

Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

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

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

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

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A written word is the choicest of relics.

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.