Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.