If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The dog is the god of frolic.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.