To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Am I no a bonny fighter?

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.