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.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

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.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

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.