Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

I am my neighbor's Bible: he reads me when we meet, today he reads me in my house, tomorrow in the street; he may be relative or friend, or slight acquaintance be; he may not even know my name, yet he is reading me.

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

The English Bible: a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it?''

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?