We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.