If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

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