The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.