A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life such as yours, this earth would be God's paradise.
Freedom is the unrestricted chance to be and do what you consider best.
Freiheit ist die uneingeschränkte Chance, das zu sein und zu tun, was uns das Bestmöglichste scheint.
Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
La liberté – c'est l'occasion illimitée d'être et de faire ce qu'on juge être le meilleur.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him He gives him for mankind.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
O little town of Bethlehem / How still we see thee lie! / Above thy deep and dreamless sleep / The silent stars go by.
O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night.
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be lost. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that shall show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
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