“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”

“Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.”

“Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”

“Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.”

“Change can only be in the limited.”

“Like oneWho having into truth, by telling of it,Made such a sinner of his memory,To credit his own lie.”

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.”

“We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.”

“They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?”

“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

“O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”

“If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers”

“The weakest goes to the wall.”