I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.