"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they..." - Quote by James Allen

“Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.”

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.”

“Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.”

“Literature is my Utopia”

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

“Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.”

“The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.”

“If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.”