We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.