We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.