This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.