The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

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

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one