Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go, struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
I love not man the less, but nature more.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
To make money, buy some good stock, hold it until it goes up, and then sell it. If it doesn't go up, don't buy it.
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
For him, any wine dated before four o'clock in the afternoon is vintage.