Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

No decision is, in itself, a decision.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.