Quite a few parts of this short book have stuck with my throughout the years, like this ditty about positive thinking:

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

And of course, whenever I see a man with a prodigious beard, I always think of Mr. Twit and his disgusting habits.