Great Throughts Treasury

"He owes it to himself, to his friends, to society and to the community in general to live up to his best spiritual possibilities."

"The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair."

"To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing."

"When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes the realization."

"Opportunities correspond with almost mathematical accuracy to the ability to use them."