Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.