In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.