Whole, unbruised, unbroken men are of but little use.

True living is really a succession of battles, in which the better triumphs over the worse, the spirit over the flesh.

Until we cease to live for self, we have not begun to live at all.
We can never become truly useful and helpful to others until we have learned this lesson.

One may live for self and yet do many pleasant things for others; but one's life can never become the great blessing to the world it was meant to be until the law of self-sacrifice has become its heart principle.
A great oak stands in the forest.

It is beautiful in its majesty; it is ornamental; it casts a pleasant shade.