“It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.”

The things that hurt us teach us.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?

Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.