Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.