Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

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.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.