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

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

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

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

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

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

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