Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

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.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

We've heard it said, that government is best which governs least. That government is best which governs least, and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government they will have.

It is a great art to saunter.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand… We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; That is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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