A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.