Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.