A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

We generally get the evil we expect.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.