Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.