“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

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.

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.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Write while the heat is in you.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

We are constantly invited to be what we are.