You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Charity never faileth.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

Perfection is always infinite.