“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

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.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.