Henry Drummond

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

... something wholly new in religious thought. All other heavens have been gardens, dreamlands: passivities, more or less aimless. Even to the majority among ourselves, heaven is a siesta and not a city.The heaven of Christianity is different from all other heavens, because the religion of Christianity is different from all other religions. Christianity is the religion of cities. It moves among real things. Its sphere is the street, the market-place, the working life of the world... Try to restore the natural force of the expression - suppose John to have lived today and to have said 'I saw a new London.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.