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.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

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