Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.