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

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

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.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

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.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.