When the fight thickens the captain says, "Steady, boys;" and it is their steadiness which pulls the soldiers through. Fitful soldiers are rarely useful ones. That is our great need today, steady Christians — men and women you can count on. Many Christians are like intermittent springs. They flow today — tomorrow you cannot get a thimbleful of religious activity out of the dried channel of their lives.

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 248.