The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.