Faith is a total attitude of the self.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.
God alone can finish.
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Talking too much, too soon, and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.
Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort.