Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.