He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . . And listens like a three years' child.

He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

All concord's born of contraries.

More than any other religion or, indeed, than any other element in human experience, Christianity has made for the intellectual advance of man in reducing languages to writing, creating literatures, promoting education from primary grades through institutions of university level, and stimulating the human mind and spirit to fresh explorations into the unknown. It has been the largest single factor in combating, on a world-wide scale, such ancient foes of man as war, famine, and the exploitation of one race by another. More than any other religion, it has made for the dignity of human personality. This it has done by a power inherent within it of lifting lives from selfishness, spiritual mediocrity, and moral defeat and disintegration, to unselfish achievement and contagious moral and spiritual power and by the high value which it set upon every human soul through the possibilities which it held out of endless growth in fellowship with the eternal God.

We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon every issue in life, every problem, every relationship, every practice. But is it not true that in our hearts we are afraid that the full-orbed, unfiltered revelation of God will disturb some custom, some privilege, some status by which we benefit in society, occupation, or government? And knowing that we are profiting by the blood, sweat, and tears of the many, we feel wrath rising in us whenever it is proposed that religion touches the thing in question.

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

when the cat's away, the mice will play.

Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. - Ik Marvel ,

The word "Comforter" as applied to the Holy Spirit needs to be translated by some vigorous term. Literally, it means "with strength." Jesus promised His followers that "The Strengthener" would be with them forever. This promise is no lullaby for the faint-hearted. It is a blood transfusion for courageous living.