The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.