Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
Look out! Behind you!
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail – and you eventually will if you stick to the job – they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an.
Do your thing, and I shall know you.
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.