"You do not understand, you say, sir that's just it; and I am too foolish and ignorant to be able to explain things rightly to a gentleman like you; but the Lord will explain it to you when He thinks fit.

You are young yet, sir, and the way stretches long before you, and the mysteries of God are hidden from your eyes.

But when you have loved and cherished a woman as your own flesh, and when you have had little children clinging round your knees, you'll understand rightly enough then without needing any man to teach you." "My good man, do you suppose a wife and children would teach me more than the collected wisdom of the ages ?" "A sight more, Mr.Tremaine--a sight more.

Folks don't learn the best things from books, sir.

Why, when the Lord Himself wrote the law on tables of stone, they got broken; but when He writes it on the fleshly tables of our hearts, it lives forever.