The never-ending task of self improvement.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.