Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.