No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.