To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to leave the world a better placevto know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Good men must not obey the laws too well

Imitation is suicide

Earth laughs in flowers

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man