We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

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?

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!