It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.