What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.