By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

When these cardinal virtues will be manifested in you, then only you will be able to work with great energy.

You must express your sympathy with people of all sects.

If anybody comes to you for vain dispute, politely withdraw yourself.

Many things may occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a mountain of a mole-hill, if you try to express them. Everything ends, if you forgive and forget.

Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin. You must wholly avoid it.

There is a mellowness and a calmness in life now, which never was before. I am learning now how to be attached as well as detached and mentally becoming my own master....

Work always brings dirt with it. I paid for the accumulated dirt with bad health. I am glad my mind is all the better for it.