No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

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.