What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.