Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.