Man's rank is his power to uplift.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?