My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.