People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others have idled, have perservered while others read more

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,
and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,
industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life
the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which
matter least.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which
matter least.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple
we couldn't.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple
we couldn't.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we read more

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

You can be right or you can be happy.

You can be right or you can be happy.

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And
when you live it people may think you're crazy. It read more

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And
when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully
said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity
as by one who practices it.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. He who controls read more

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but
he who has mastered himself is mightier still.