Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.