Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.