The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.