The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.