The duty of every man is to endeavor to do something for the world, something which will deserve praise and gratitude.
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death, but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection.
You and I do not need to be told new truths. We need to be reminded of old truths that we already know.
To know that life is in you in abundance, that you are fit to do the most that a human soul can do, and that you are fit to take the greatest happiness that a human soul can know—that is life at its best.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing.
To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
