What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

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.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.