It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.