As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.