The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the claims of this or that party in the church, they turn away with a smile such as men yield to the talk of children. They have no time, they would say, for that kind of thing. They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

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

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

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

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.