Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

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

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

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

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.