Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Be yourself not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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.