We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.