For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.