May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.