The rescued are appallingly few – a ghastly minority compared with the multitudes who struggle and sink in the open-mouthed abyss.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

A man’s labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

Don’t instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don’t be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.

I am for the world’s salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

It is impossible to comfort men’s hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I’d learn how!

While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight...

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again – until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.