It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.