There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!