Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

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

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

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.

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

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.

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.