Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Love is the river of life in this world.