it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.