There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

- William Morley Punshon

All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with ever…

- William Morley Punshon

Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempte…

- William Morley Punshon

Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There …

- William Morley Punshon

Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fel…

- William Morley Punshon

And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Prese…

- William Morley Punshon

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

- William Morley Punshon

Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do you…

- William Morley Punshon

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

- William Morley Punshon