A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.