Rest satisfied with doing well, 

and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought 

and the thought has found words.

You can discover more about a person 

in an hour of play 

than in a year of conversation.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye 

that we may always advance toward it, 

though we know it can never be reached.

A person may cause evil to others 

not only by his actions 

but by his inaction, 

and in either case 

he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

They who can give up essential liberty 

to obtain a little temporary safety 

deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Happiness is when 

what you think, 

what you say, 

and what you do 

are in harmony.

The whole of science, 

and one is tempted to think 

the whole of the life of any thinking man, 

is trying to come to terms 

with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. 

Why are you here, 

and how do you fit in, 

and what's it all about.

Everywhere I go 

I find that a poet has been there before me.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, 

and if he does not love solitude, 

he will not love freedom, 

for it is only when he is alone 

that he is really free.

When a truth is necessary, 

the reason for it can be found by analysis, 

that is, 

by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths 

until the primary ones are reached.

Not what we have 

but what we enjoy, 

constitutes our abundance.