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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

Things do not change; we change.

Things do not change, we do.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

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 which he hears, however measured or far away.

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.