Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

Run, John, and work, the law commands, Yet give me neither feet nor hand.Much better new the Gospel brings:It bids me fly and gives me winds.

No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

What would you sacrifice for power?

History has taught us that people who live to serve humanity selflessly are the ones who live forever. Those who divorce themselves from service to humanity are forgotten even before their death.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.