Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.