Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.