It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.