Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.