What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

I have been crying, " she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

Life is a struggle with innerself.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.