All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.