Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.