First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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.