It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.