A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

Use wisely your power of choice.

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

It is one of the strange facts of church life that, in official church gatherings such as sessions and presbyteries and even General Assemblies, a great many hours might be given to the discussion of mundane problems of administration for every one hour given to the discussion of the eternal truths of God.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.