To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.