Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Nearer than before, but as yet further than we wish, is the day when the will of love shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Pessimism is waste of force – the penalty of one who knows not how to live.

there was no home, I say, which Christ entered, so far as we have any account of His ministry, which He did not leave, both physically and morally, sweeter and decenter and purer because He had entered it.

We need the workers, the reapers, immediately – hearty ones, without much talk.

Men are exceedingly apt to imagine that nothing can be seriously wrong, which they have a right to do;  to forget that the licence which is allowed by law may be sternly prohibited by morality. 

Money is more than anything the test of conduct. 

Whatever we wish to buy, we ought first to consider not only if the thing be fit for us, but if the manufacture of it be a wholesome and happy one; 

Money is, in the use men make of it, the final touchstone of character.