So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.