Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

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

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

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.