One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.