You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.