Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.