The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.