The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

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.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.