True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.