If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.