We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.