I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

Shall we not go on in such great a cause?

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.