To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.

The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.

There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.

The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.