You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.