Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

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

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

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.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.