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.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

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

Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

There is no medicine like hope.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.