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.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.