It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

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

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.