Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!