Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.