Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.