The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

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

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

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.