Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!