The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

All haste implies weakness.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.