Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

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.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.