Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

For we that live please must please to live.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.