Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

You are what you tweet.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.