The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.