One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Bible Christianity is what I love … a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

I like to use the hard times in the past, to motivate me today.

I wanted freedom, open air, adventure. I found it on the sea.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.