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

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.