The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.