Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

The great hope of society is in individual character

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.