Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.