Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.