Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.