Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

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.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.