Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

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

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.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.