Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.