Men have become the tools of their tools.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

There is no value in life 

except what you choose to place upon it 

and no happiness in any place 

except what you bring to it yourself.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Do what you love. 

Know your own bone; 

gnaw at it, 

bury it, 

unearth it, 

and gnaw it still.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Rather than love, 

than money, 

than fame, 

give me truth.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

If you can speak what you will never hear, 

if you can write what you will never read, 

you have done rare things.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. 

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Good for the body is the work of the body, 

and good for the soul is the work of the soul, 

and good for either is the work of the other.

It takes two to speak the truth: 

one to speak, 

and another to hear.

Pursue some path, 

however narrow and crooked, 

in which you can walk 

with love and reverence.

The language of friendship 

is not words 

but meanings.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. 

The obedient must be slaves.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, 

so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. 

To make a deep physical path, 

we walk again and again. 

To make a deep mental path, 

we must think over and over 

the kind of thoughts 

we wish to dominate our lives.

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.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It's not what you look at that matters, 

it's what you see.