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 English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.