Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.