What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.