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.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

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.

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

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.‎

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.