Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.