We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.