Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks

To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge

Happiness is the natural flower of duty

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is

The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity

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