All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.