The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

The poor need help today, not next week.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Be less the general and more a father. Hold her close at night and chase the shadows away.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.