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

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

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.

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.