“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

“Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.”

“When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.”

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? ”