Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.