Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.