The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.