The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.