Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.