You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

There is no medicine like hope.

People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

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

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.