If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.