We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.