There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.