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

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Kind words are the music of the world.

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

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