Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

My musical tastes change every week.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.

Progress is the ultimate motivation.