As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.