The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

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

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

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

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.

No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.