Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

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

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

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.

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.