For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.