There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which...

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen...

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature’s loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even...

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba’s is unlocked with a verbal key

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it’s opposite, the unthought part of which you say

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man’s part in the real battle of life.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand...

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us

I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her...

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.