Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.