“A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.”

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all”