It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

What secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.