There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.