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!

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.