... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.