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

Preaching is truth through personality.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

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.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.