Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.