Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.