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If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.

If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

angry people are not always wise

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.

A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.

Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that

Even the commonest men reserve the violent, the sulky, the undisguisedly selfish side of their character for those who have no power to withstand it.

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world