Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.