In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.