Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.