A thing is important if anyone think it important.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.