There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

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

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.