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

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Anger is self-immolation.

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.