it has often seemed to me that a good rule to adopt would be ‘Love them, and pray for them, and leave them alone as much as possible.’

The man most man with tend’rest human hands
Works best for man – as God in Nazareth

 It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be the sooner over.

Work done out of harmony with God comes to nothing, but work done in a rightful spirit, drinking in of the Love of God, is eternal work

…a care that brings burdens, that takes away light, that deprives us of happiness, has passed beyond the wholesome line.

I HATE to see a thing done by halves;  if it be right, do it boldly;  if it be wrong, leave it undone.

DON’T speak of what you are going to do.   Do it.

LET us be content in work 

To do the thing we can, and not presume

To fret because it’s little.

Not till you make men self-reliant, intelligent, and fond of struggle, fonder of struggle than of mere help – not till then have you relieved poverty.

THIS is true philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart.