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.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

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

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.