Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.