“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Morning“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
Life“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Morning“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?”
Life“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
Faith“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.”
Life“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”
Love“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.”
Life“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Religion“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
Health“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
Architecture“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
Life“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
Dreams“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Experience“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
Nature“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
Learning“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”
Truth“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Life“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
Men“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
Work“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
Wisdom“The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.”
Men