The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality

Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete

Books are not men and yet they stay alive

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house