If we can catch a disease from certain persons, we can also catch health from others:  if some companions exhaust and depress, others equally exalt and vivify. 

A deep, true love will lift a soul out of the shallows of selfishness and the mud of fleshliness, when all other powers combined have failed to extricate it from the slough

Not by premeditated words, or ostentatious actions, but by the unconscious power of character, we mould others into the likeness of ourselves.  

And you ought not to be satisfied until you find yourself able to feel that the hope of doing something by your living to make the world in a real, although an un-appreciable, degree more full of these words for the men who are to follow us, is the noblest and most inspiring promise which can be set before your soul.

It is of quite unsuspected value to take, even for a minute or two, a complete rest, not trying to pray or think, not even to wander in reverie, but remaining quite passive and quiet in the presence of God.

Our Divine Lord’s ‘Peace be still’ has been uttered over all the billows that threaten to toss the bark.   It has inward rest whatever be the outward commotion.
Environment is a small matter to him who contemplates the Almighty.

High above all earthly, lower happiness, the blessedness of those Eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself.   They are white with the snows of eternity;  they give a grace, a meaning, a dignity, to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.