Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.