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

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

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.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

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