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.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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

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.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

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.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.