Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.