I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

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

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

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.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

We work and that is godlike.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.