There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

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 are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.