There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.