Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

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

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.