Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.