The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. "Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?" Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth.