The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.