Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.