So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.