Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'