“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.”

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.

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.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

I love relaxing with a good book.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Failure is the first chapter in the book of success. 

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.