The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.