Holiness, of course, is a greater word, but we cannot produce that in others.   That is reserved for God Himself, but what is put in our power is happiness, and for that each man is his brother’s keeper. 

THERE is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good.   One person I have to make good:  myself. 

We hear much of love to God;  Christ spoke much of love to man.   We make a great deal of peace with heaven;  Christ made much of peace on earth.

Try hard to be humble, to be free from all conceit, to question your own opinions, to give up your own way, to put simplicity first among all excellences of character, to be ready to think yourself in the wrong, to prefer others to yourself; 

An angry person is generally impolite;  and where contention and ill-will are, there can be no courteousness. 

May we put away from us the satire which scourges and the anger which brands:  the oil and wine of the good Samaritan are of more avail.

Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.   Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

We are sure to go on closing doors of sympathy, and narrowing in the interests and opportunities of work around us, if we let ourselves imagine that we can quickly measure the capacities and sift the characters of our fellow-men.

Nothing but the Infinite pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.