We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.