“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.”

“It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.”

“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very much on the objects and persons around us. On this account, nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior.”

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”