It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.