You can't out-perform your self-image.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

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

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition