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.

A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.

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.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

Ideals are the world's masters.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.