The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

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

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.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.