"Wash your face every morning in a..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.”

“As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.”

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.”

“He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

“We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.”

“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”

“Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.”

“Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.”