happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

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.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

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

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.