Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.