What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.