"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."

"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."

"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?"

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."

"O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)"

"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."