To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.