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.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

In love, you pay as you leave.

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.