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

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

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.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.