Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.

The Holy Spirit teaches the Truth.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HELP BECOME SUCCESSFUL, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME.