It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."