I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Look twice before you leap.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.