No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for ma….

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men..

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberation….

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it..

No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a ….

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both..

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble..

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues..

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is n….

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process..

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives w….

How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But i….

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops..

Happiness is the natural flower of duty..

Preaching is truth through personality..

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it..

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do ou….

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use..

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own..

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power..

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea ar….