Good hands (sports cliche).

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of rivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.

How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

A good man is hard to find.

It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them... Listening can be a greater service than speaking... One who cannot listen long and patiently will presently be talking beside the point and be never really speaking to others. Anyone who thinks his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies... We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.