If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.