Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.