“The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.”

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

The warmth is spring is near. It smells of hope and cheer. The budding bulbs of daffodils will end the endless fear.

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful – never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.