Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.