There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

There is no medicine like hope.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

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.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.