Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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

Anger is self-immolation.

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

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.