Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.