You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Study everything, join nothing.

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.