If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.