A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.