Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.