To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

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

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.