move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.