Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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.