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

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

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.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

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