The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

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

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.

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.

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.