Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.