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.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.