Discover what you are.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.