Great Throughts Treasury

"Progressiveness is looking forward intelligently, looking within critically, and moving on incessantly."

"My Gift - What shall I give to you , my friend, To express my love and goodwill: Shall it not be a part of myself? Then let it be the very best part, which is the secret of all my gladness. The rarest treasure I possess is the conviction that life is good: that it had abundant compensation for every trouble that may come; that it has possibilities beyond all you have ever dreamed; that among even the very least are capacities beyond the greatest yet expressed within our ken; that great surges of power and joy are eager to course through us and reveal a life transcendent. Tears of joy often fill my eyes, a wonderful feeling at my throat, thrills that almost pain my bosom, and my heart sings to the stars. If I could make you feel that way and hold it through all the years, that would be my gift to you. May your year unfold in surprising asnd lovely ways."

"Consecrate one whole day, and cease to listen to the groans of humanity and the discord of the world, and listen instead to that vast song that is welling up from the depths of the hearts of the redeemed; and blend the voice of thy thought with the immortal strains of Life's unending song. And then, when thou turnest again to humanity, to tell them of the true thoughts that overfill thy consciousness, they shall be indeed such thoughts as "a world's famine feed."

"Necessity is the discoverer of hidden capacity, no less than the "mother of invention."