At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.