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.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.