There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.