Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Well begun is half done.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.