Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

Never forget what a man says to you when he's angry.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us worry, but wise ... It is a trial that proves one thing weak and another strong ... A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.

Coming (to the Bible) through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.