Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

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

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.