If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

The greatest ability is dependability.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

Talk is cheap when your words have no value.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.