Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
There is a realm where the rainbow never fades
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.
Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.
We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.