Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.