One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.