Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

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.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.