You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

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

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.