You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.