A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

According to her cloth she cut her coat.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder.

Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, but it is not for the Scriptures' sake that we believe in Christ.