There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.