There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

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

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

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.

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.