To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.