The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

God has a lot of things to teach us in Heaven, things we didn't learn in this life.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.