Great Throughts Treasury

"We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins."

"Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it—for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us."

"Our manners and customs go for more in life than our qualities.—The price we pay for our civilization is the fine yet impassible differentiation of these."

"An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise."