The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.