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.

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

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

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

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

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.