Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'