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

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.