No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. 668
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. 864
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. 1.14K
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. 1.34K
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. 596
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. 651
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. 626
To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. 713
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. 878
