The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Religion is using everything for God.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.