Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.