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!

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.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

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