A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.