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

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.