If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action