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

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.