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.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.