Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.