The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

True obedience is true freedom.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.