Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.