We find in life exactly what we put into it.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense..

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony..

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the s….

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind..

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and ….

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere..

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common..

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you..

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm..

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true..

Always do what you are afraid to do..

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow..

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision….

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief..

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth..

All life is an experiment..

Hitch your wagon to a star..

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it..

The world belongs to the energetic..

It is not length of life, but depth of life..