I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.