An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.