It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

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