The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

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.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.