Who said “The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea,…”?

“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.”

“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?”

“Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.”

“People cannot be well educated without the Bible.”

“The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas upon.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”

“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”

“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.”