There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.