To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you’r passage through life.