“The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.”

“We do not desire too much, but too little.”

“Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.”

“No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul."”

“We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.”

“In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.”

“We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.”

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”

“The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are, the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.”

“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro. in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.