It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

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

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.