"Be deaf, be blind, be dead to..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.”

“Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.”

“The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.”

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.”

“Fond of those hives where folly reigns,And cards and scandal are the chains,Where the pert virgin slights a name,And scorns to redden into shame.”

“If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”

“Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.”

“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.”

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”