As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
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.
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.