Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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.