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.

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

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.