Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste