What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls,… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
