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.

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

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.

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

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

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