God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.