Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.