The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.