The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
Lord, take my lips and speak through them; take my mind and think through it; take my heart and set it on fire.
Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
The finer impulse of our nature.
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.