Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.