Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion The ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhad not proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmthe Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedthe Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The face the index of a feeling mind.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.