Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.