Love will bloom and will defeat hate whenever we choose to stand taller, care deeper, live kinder, love louder.

He believed that religion meant the abundant life, the full life, not a cramped and contracted one, and in the completest way, he practised this faith.

It is not only our right, it is our duty to enjoy and be happy. Pleasure does us good if gratefully and lovingly accepted

A deep unquenchable spirit of joy is at once the truest evidence that we believe in the beneficence of the Father, and that we have penetrated deep enough into life’s mystery to see how best, most economically, most courageously and helpfully to take it.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

The beautiful soul makes beautiful the outward form;  the base act debases the soul of him who commits it.

A vulgar regard for appearance is, primarily, a selfish one, resulting not out of a wish to give pleasure (as a wife’s wish to make herself beautiful for her husband), but out of an endeavour to mortify others, or attract for pride’s sake