I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.