It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?