Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

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

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.

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?

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

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