To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

You can change the world at this moment for better by changing your thoughts and by spreading your love for the world and humanity as a whole.

A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.

Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.