The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.