Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

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 inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

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

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

We generally get the evil we expect.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.