Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.