The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Past tears are present strength.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.