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

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

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