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.‎

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

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

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.