The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

God alone can finish.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

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