Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.