Let us do right, and then whether happiness come, or unhappiness, it is no very mighty matter.

If it come, life will be sweet; if it do not come, life will be bitter--bitter, not sweet, and yet to be borne....

The well-being of our souls depends only on what we _are_; and nobleness of character is nothing else but _steady love of good, and steady scorn of evil_....
Only to those who have the heart to say, 'We can do without selfish enjoyment: it is not what we ask or desire,' is there no secret.

Man will have what he desires, and will find what is really best for him, exactly as he honestly seeks for it.

_Happiness may fly away, pleasure pall or cease to be obtainable, wealth decay, friends fail or prove unkind; but the power to serve God never fails, and the love of Him is never rejected_.".