True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

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.