The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

The trouble with us is that we are ever looking for a princely chance of acquiring riches, or fame, or worth. We are dazzled by what Emerson calls the "shallow Americanism" of the day. We are expecting mastery without apprenticeship, knowledge without study, and riches by credit.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

No man fails who does his best ...

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

We lend power to the things we fear!

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

There is no medicine like hope ...

Work, love, and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.