The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.