Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.