If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.