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

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

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

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

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.