He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.