Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

Intuition is the soul within the soul.

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

I advise people not to research radiation unless they are prepared to take the risks to their own health and mental functioning that the various forms of radiation are known to present to the human.

Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

When one heart moves the whole web trembles.

Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?