The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.