William Feather

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.