Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.
Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThe true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Arthur Penrhyn StanleyA happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
Arthur Penrhyn StanleyI doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.
Arthur Penrhyn StanleyWould that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.
Arthur Penrhyn StanleyEvery one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley