Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?