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

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

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.

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

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

O, do not pray for easy lives.