In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.