Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity