We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.