Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it