Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.