It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

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

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.

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.