In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.