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

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

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.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.