Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.