Experience is the mother of custom.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.