My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.

As no good is done, or spoken, or thought by any man without the assistance of God, working in and with those that believe in him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or thought without the assistance of the devil, who worketh with strong though secret power in the children of unbelief. All the works of our evil nature are the work of the devil.