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

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.