Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

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

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.