When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.