Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

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.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.