The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.