It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

There is an opportunity cost in every action.

What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.