Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to