When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

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

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.