“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life”

“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win”

“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”

“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”