The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.