Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
Patience has tender feet.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
Nations die first in the big cities.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.
Power should answer by action, not by speech.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
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