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.

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

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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