A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.