Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.