Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.