Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.