Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.

Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.

Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.

Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.