In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.