One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.