Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

A sincere praise to God makes soul prospers.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians

Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.