The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.