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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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Be not simply good - be good for something.

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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