Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.