Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.