Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.