Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.