Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

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

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

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.