A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

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

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.