The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

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.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

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