When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

Oh, one world at a time!

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

What is once well done is done forever.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.