Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.