Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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 xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.