I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Small service is true service while it lasts:Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love....

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.