Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.