Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.