Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.