Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny