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.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.

Time and pains will do anything.

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.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.