Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.