Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

I will act as if I do make a difference.

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

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.