“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

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.

Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.