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.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.