Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

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!

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.