Every Child Should Be Taught To Expect

A Great Many People Never Really Discover Themselves Until Ruin Stares Them In The Face. They Do Not Seem To Know How To Bring Out Their Reserves Until They Are Overtaken By An Overwhelming Disaster, Or Until The Sight Of Their Blighted Prospects And Of The Wreck Of Their Homes And Happiness Stirs Them To The Very Center Of Their Beings.... There Is Something In Defeat Which Puts New Determination Into A Man Of Mettle.

Success Is Not Measured By What You Accomplish, But By The Opposition You Have Encountered, And The Courage With Which You Have Maintained The Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds.

Thrift Means That You Should Always Have The Best You Can Possibly Afford, When The Thing Has Any Reference To Your Physical And Mental Health, To Your Growth In Efficiency And Power.

Real Happiness Is So Simple That Most People Do Not Recognize It. It Is Derived From The Simplest, The Quietest, The Most Unpretentious Things In The World.

When You Finish A Thing You Ought To Be Able To Say To Yourself: 'there, I Am Willing To Stand For That Piece Of Work. It Is Not Pretty Well Done; It Is Done As Well As I Can Do It; Done To A Complete Finish. I Will Stand For That. I Am Willing To Be Judged By It.'