An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.