Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.