Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.