Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.