The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Success is not achieved, it is attracted.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

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God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.