Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.