Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.