Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.