The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

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

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

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.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.