Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child’s home.
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there.
When I pray coincidences happen and when I don’t they don’t.
The church exists for the sake of those outside it.
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.
Man’s wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.