The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.