Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Every person is lined with love!

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God... I prejudice not an external test and call, which was at first and shall be again in force at the resurrection of the churches, ... but in the present state of things I cannot but be humbly bold to say that I know no other true sender but the most Holy Spirit. And when He sends, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564 However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.

Why should a man die who has sage in his garden?

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.