We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty