Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Love is not about getting - but giving.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

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.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.