“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

I really don’t like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.

Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.

The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.