Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?