In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Time and pains will do anything.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.