God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.