Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.