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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.