It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.