It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

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