When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.