Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened mor….

No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it….

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, th….

The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's fa….

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys..

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates dispositi….

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simpl….

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth..

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever..

If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around sa….

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live..

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acq….

Worry is forethought gone to seed..

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations..

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and int….

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-….

Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterd….

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible..

Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience a….

We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a ….