Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Exactness is the sublimity of fools.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

The fashion of the day has been to attempt to convert by insisting on conversion; to exhort men to be converted; to tell them to be sure they look at Christ instead of simply holding up Christ; to tell them to have faith rather than to supply its object; to lead them to work up their minds, instead of impressing upon them the thought of Him who can savingly work in them; to bid them to be sure their faith is justifying, that it is not dead, formal, self-righteous, or merely moral, instead of delineating Him whose image, fully delineated, destroys deadness, formality, self-righteousness; to rely on words, vehemence, eloquence, and the like, rather than to aim at conveying the one great idea, whether in words or not.

In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

He/she has one oar out of the water.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.