No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

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

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.