I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.