“If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within