Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

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

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.