The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.