Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.